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Burkart & Oehlerking, Inc. has launched a new residential development in northwest suburban Fox Lake. Set on 60 acres of wooded terrain, Hickory Cove is planned for 120 single-family homes base-priced from $119,000 to $170,000. Five floor plans include split-level and two-story designs. The homes range from 1,400 to 2,546 square feet and will be situated on sites ranging from 8,100 to 32,000 square feet. Each of the home designs features from three to five bedrooms, 1/2 to 2 1/2 baths, separate formal living and dining rooms, two-car attached garages and expandable, finished or unfinished living areas.

Longtime Harvard resident Bob Burkart has been named general chairman of this year's Milk Days celebration. His primary duty is to coordinate the committee chairmen who will organize the Milk Days weekend, Burkart said. "We're all ready for June because all of the committee people are doing their jobs," said Burkart, who also served as general chairman in 1992. The 57th annual Milk Days celebration will be held June 5 to 7 at the carnival grounds at Northfield Avenue and 8th Street.

Richard James Avalos, age 31, passed away Friday, October 13, 2000, beloved son of James (Natividad nee Caberllo) Avalos; loving brother of Linda (Jerome) Koch and Shirley (Robert) Burkart; fond uncle of Carrie and Amy Kotch and Michael Burkart. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, October 18, 2000 at 11 a.m. at Sheldon-Goglin Funeral Home, 5935 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago with Rev. George A. Rice, Pastor officiating. Entombment at Mt. Olive Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch.

The Park and Recreation Commission may survey residents as soon as next spring to see if they want a community recreation center. Although no site or specific costs have been linked to the proposed facility, village officials said the center would be a multimillion-dollar project. Commission Chairwoman Molly Burkart said that other communities have enviable recreation centers and that Hinsdale should have a similar center that would enable children through senior citizens to do everything from exercise to take cooking classes.

The St. Charles Historical Society is awarding its 1990 Heritage Award to the three men who developed the downtown Piano Factory Outlet Mall. The award will be presented to Richard Burkart and Bruce Oehlerking and posthumously to Donald Kahan at a banquet scheduled July 21 at the Old Piano Factory, 410 S. First St. The award is being presented this year in conjunction with the society's 50th anniversary.

Joseph Chaloupka, age 95 of Geneva, OH, died July 1 at his home. He was born March 15, 1909 in Czechoslovakia. Survivors include two daughters Joan Selley (Robert) Burkart of Maitland, FL and Lynn Chaloupka of Chicago, IL. A Celebration of Life Service was held on July 8, 2004 at the family home in Geneva. The Behm Family Funeral Home & Crematory, 175 S. Broadway, Geneva, OH had charge of the arrangements.

Construction has begun for two models at Greenbrier Park, 166 single-family homes in northwest suburban Crystal Lake. Richard Burkart, partner of Burkart and Oehlerking Inc., developer, said that the Knollwood and Deluxe Homestead floor plans will be featured as furnished models and should be completed in October. "More than 20 percent of the homes has been sold even though the models have not yet been completed," Burkart said. The six floor plans include the split-level Prairie, priced from $115,900, with three bedrooms and up to 2 1/2 baths; the two-story Foxtail, priced from $116,900, with three to four bedrooms and 1 1/2 baths; the two-story Homestead, with three to four bedrooms and up to 2 1/2 baths, priced from $119,900; the Farmstead, a three-bedroom ranch with two baths, priced from $122,900; the Woodland, priced from $138,900, a two-story, three-bedroom home with 2 1/2 baths; and the Knollwood, priced from $139,900, a two-story home with four bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths.